Q. And how important are unions for Australian working people today?
|
19 Mar 2012 |
This week 10 Sept 12 |
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Work full time |
Work part time |
|
| Total Important |
56% |
52% |
72% |
34% |
82% |
52% |
56% |
| Total Not Important |
35% |
38% |
21% |
58% |
11% |
42% |
33% |
| Very important |
19% |
16% |
28% |
6% |
37% |
19% |
15% |
| Quite important |
37% |
36% |
44% |
28% |
45% |
33% |
41% |
| Not very important |
27% |
28% |
19% |
40% |
9% |
31% |
25% |
| Not at all important |
8% |
10% |
2% |
18% |
2% |
11% |
8% |
| Don’t know |
9% |
10% |
6% |
8% |
7% |
6% |
10% |
The majority of respondents regarded unions to be important for Australian working people today (52%), whilst 38% believe that they were not important. Belief that they are important fell 4 points from 56% in March 2012 to 52% in this week’s results.
Greens voters were by far the most likely to believe that unions were important for Australian working people today (82%), whilst Coalition voters were the most likely to regard unions as not important (58%).
Both the majority of full time workers (52%) and part time workers (56%) regarded unions as important for Australian working people today. However full time workers (42%) were more likely than part time workers (33%) to regard unions as not important.